I clicked 'yes' and did things all over again.

When I clicked 'save' I typed in my old file name and it (my computer) said that that file already existed and do I want to go over what already exists. I clicked off the 'Save-as' box and closed hoping that something else will happen but nothing did so I just repeated my work on top of that old file. Offending operator: 'XP'%42000000000000000000000000342050542E2050524553532E2' When I closed the box the program shut down and when I went back into the file (muttering prayers that I pressed 'Ctrl S' recently) I found that I had lost all 'layers' except the bottom three!!? This had nothing to do with the order in which I did my work and when I hit 'save' it treated what was left of the file as if it were a new file. The illustration contains an incomplete or garbled object description.

I was working on a file (trying to remember to 'save' frequently) when I got 'YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING ILLEGAL' (I wait for the police to burst through my door shouting 'freeze!') and then this box that said 'Can't open the illustration.

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